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From: roger@homxc.UUCP (Another Technical Editor)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Message-ID: <3249@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 13:08:27 GMT
References: <4912@fluke.COM> <2557@shark.TEK.COM> <809@kuling.UUCP> <6419@chinet.UUCP>
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In article <6419@chinet.UUCP>, les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
| 
| If you would prepend an ESC to all of the vi commands you would find that
| it is no longer any more "moded" than any other editor, except perhaps
| those that do not have any full screen mode.  Of course the command set
| would then be more awkward to type than the usual method of hitting ESC
| only when needed (or when you aren't sure..).  If you just want the mode
| to be visually distinguishable, why not set showmode?
| 
| Les Mikesell

On my machine, showmode often doesn't get around to displaying
the active mode until well after the first keystroke. By then,
the damage is done.


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